ETHEL/Annie-B Parson site-specific, widely acclaimed collaboration Wait for Green,
November 17, 2009
Winter Season
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Composing music based on choreographic forms?
Sure, If You're Post-classical String Quartet ETHEL Collaborating with
Annie-B Parson, Postmodern Choreographer for Site-Specific
Wait for Green
Acclaimed Arts>World Financial Center 2008 Commission Returns
Free in the World Financial Center Winter Garden
Friday, December 18, at 12:30pm & 7:00pm
100,000 Lights Flood Winter Garden For Festival Of Light And Sound
November 17, 2009
Winter Season
December 1 through December 28
A Lighting Ceremony with New York Theatre Ballet's The Nutcracker (12/01);
Beyond the Pale (12/14)
ETHEL & Annie-B Parson: Wait for Green (12/18)
&
Ase Dance Theatre Collective (12/28)
plus
Santa & Caroling
CANSTRUCTION©
November 12, 2009
Fall Season
17th Annual NYC Competition
Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
October 1, 2009
Fall Season
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center's
Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
The New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition
Featuring Merce Cunningham's 1998 Hand-drawn Spaces
Free in the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery
Now through October 24
Manufacturers Show Their Metal at New York's Free Motor Show Event
September 9, 2009
Fall Season
Organisers of the 2009 New York Motorexpo have announced full details of this September’s World Financial Center event – which takes place from Sunday September 13 to Friday September 18 and is completely free for the public to attend.
Let's EAT! World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase
June 24, 2009
Summer Season
Brookfield Properties presents
EAT: WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER RESTAURANT SHOWCASE
Featuring World-Class Cuisine "Under Glass" for as Little as $1
World Financial Center Winter Garden
Thursday, July 9, 11:00am – 2:30pm
Also from River to River Festival and arts>World Financial Center:
LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII
Performs Free and Outdoors on the World Financial Center Plaza at 12:30pm
The Big Draw
June 18, 2009
Summer Season
AS PART OF THE RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL
Saturday, July 18, 2009
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
A fun, free, day-long drawing event for all ages at Three Lower Manhattan venues
Bang on a Can Marathon
May 31, 2009
Summer Season
BANG ON A CAN
MARATHON 2009
Opens the River to River Festival
Sunday, May 31, 2009
12 Hours: Noon – Midnight
World Financial Center Winter Garden
220 Vesey Street, NYC
Women's Project's Global Cooling: The Women Chill
May 7, 2009
Summer Season
arts>World Financial Center and
The River to River Festival Hit & Run Theater
present
Women's Project's
Global Cooling: The Women Chill
six site-specific plays throughout World Financial Center
World Premieres by women
Nine free performances only June 3 thru 6
Building Paradise Performance
May 1, 2009
Spring Season
Visual Art Exhibition "BUILDING PARADISE" continues with
FREE PERFORMANCE
Thursday, May 14, at 7:30pm
"object lesson: house of song, walled garden, island in the sea"
By Liz Glynn and Mariechen Danz
Presented by arts>Brookfield Properties; Free at 7+FIG Art Space
Hector Del Curto and Eternal Tango Orchestra
April 23, 2009
Spring Season
World Financial Center goes Argentine Tango --
Argentinean Bandoneónist and Bandleader Héctor Del Curto Transforms the
World Financial Center Winter Garden into a Grand Ballroom of Tango
And Evening of Dancing to the Music of the Eternal Tango Orchestra
Free Dance Lessons Too! Thursday, May 21
River Grass Skirts
April 13, 2009
Spring Season
World Financial Center Grows Its Own --
Skirts, That Is
Site-specific Artist Michele Brody Constructs Five Grass-sprouting Skirts
Growing in World Financial Center Winter Garden April 13 thru May 9
Building Paradise
April 9, 2009
Spring Season
Road to Utopia Leads to 7 + FIG:
arts>Brookfield Properties presents BUILDING PARADISE
Photography, Video Projection, Multi-Media Installation, Drawing, Animation, Sculpture and Performance
6 Artists / 4 Teams
Free at 7+FIG Art Space, April 10–May 29
American Repertory Ballet
April 3, 2009
Spring Season
Dance works by Twyla Tharp, Graham Lustig and Kirk Peterson will be performed on the stage of the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street, when the American Repertory Ballet, Graham Lustig artistic director, performs a free dance concert Thursday, April 9, at 12:30pm.
EAT: World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase
March 26, 2009
Winter Season
The restaurants of the World Financial Center are celebrating their culinary specialties, testing new menu items and showcasing signature dishes at EAT: World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase.
Songs of Love & Despair: A Musical Tribute to Pablo Neruda
March 18, 2009
Spring Season
For National Poetry Month, arts>World Financial Center adds Music to Pablo Neruda:
Songs of Love & Despair: A Musical Tribute to Pablo Neruda
Featuring performances/readings by Clogs, Irene & Vojtech Havel, Colin Stetson, Pedro Soler with Beñat Achiary, Bob Holman, Laurie Anderson & Cecilia Vicuña. Wednesday, April 15, at 8pm.
Niall O'Leary Irish Dance Troupe
March 17, 2009
Winter Season
The hottest way, or at least the warmer way, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year is under the palm trees of the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street, when Niall O'Leary Irish Dance Troupe brings Irish stepdance downtown on Tuesday, March 17, at 12:30pm for a free dance concert.
Lower Manhattan Gets Its Own Orchestra!
January 4, 2009
Winter Season
The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra debuts January 17 with a World Premiere of An Inaugural Fanfare by Gary S. Fagin featuring Elizabeth Pitcairn playing the Red Violin